Chase's phone came to life, annoyed he snatched it and placed it to his ear.
"Ya?"
"Theres a bug in my tent."
"So kill it"
"No!"
"Why not?"
"What if it has a family?"
"It's a bug"
"Bugs have children"
"ok, well maybe its a really mean and horrible bug, and all the other bugs hate it, and youll be a hero for taking his life."
"Wait"
"What?"
"I hear something outside my tent"
"Its probably just the wind"
"What if its a bear?"
"Ask him to step on the bug"
"Imma go investigate"
"Have fun"
Clearly annoyed Chase pressed his phone off and turned to his side trying to get some shut-eye.
Michael grasped a large blue flashlight as he cautiously approached the tent door.
He stepped out and quickly spotted two figures in very close proximity, panic took hold of him as his screams were met with two girlish screams. The screams continued as Chase who was now scared as well stepped out of his tent and joined the chorus of the four friends screaming. Finally they all grabbed hold of their instincts.
"You almost made me wet my pants"
"Uh, dido" Nichole strongly responded.
"What are you guys doing here?"
Chase couldn't keep a partial smile off his face at the sight of Zoey, how does she still look so amazing in P.J.'s he thought.
"Well, we tried to find you at your dorm"
"Logan said you were sleeping outside in a tent"
"So we've been walking around here for half an hour trying to find you."
"Ya we wanna ask a favour"
"What?"
"Can we use one of your tents?"
"Why?"
"Cause we are not sleeping in the same room with freeky Lola."
"I thought you guys were going to take care of that"
"Well we didn't so can we use one of these tents?"
"Please"
"Sure go for it"
Chase's heart rate picked up at the thought of sleeping in a decent proximity to Zoey even if it wasn't in the same room.
"Ya take that one" Michael stated as he pointed to his tent.
"Yay, c'mon Zoe"
All four of them happily hopped into their respective tents.
It didn't take long at all for the inevitable to happen as Zoey and Nicole discovered the bug.
"Bug!"
"Kill it!"
"No, you kill it!"
"ahh! where is it"
"There it is!"
"Ahh!"
The girls finally gave up the battle and decided to bail frantically jumping out of their tent.
Michael jumped out and Chase rolled out of their tent.
"What?"
"What happened?"
"There's A ginormous bug in there!"
"Really?"
"Give me a break" Chase said to Michael under his breath.
"Ok well how about we switch tents." Chase offered.
"That sounds good to me!" Zoey happily replied, and Nichole nodded.
"Hold on just a second" Michael said as he put both his arms out, one blocking Chase.
"We don't know what type of bug that is… i mean who knows how deadly it is."
"So what are you proposing?"
"We split our tent… i mean were all friends its not that weird and there's more then enough room for us, and the bug can happily take the other tent.
"Why dont you just admit you're scared of the bug" Chase stated.
"Hey im just looking out for our well-being."
"Oh im sure you are, thats the only reason you want to stay in the other tent"
Chase was acting unenthused by this idea as he didn't want to look weird, but truthfully the idea of him and Zoey in the same tent for a night was amazing, as his heart rate continued to climb.
"Ok! well do it its fine just stop you're arguing!"
"Alright, we'll do it your way Michael." Chase said as he made sure he was the first one to enter the tent in order to claim the inside sleeping spot. He was ecstatic, Michael was a complete genius. Chase lay there with great anticipation and hope on who would be lying down next to him. Michael settled in on his left, and a body slowly dropped to the floor to Chase's right, his heart leaped at the sight of Zoey settling in beside him for the night. Eight hours he thought, eight hours sleeping next to the love of my life. He was downright giddy at this fact but made sure he masked it.
They said their goodnights and settled in for the night.
Chase was lying on his stomach, a hand under his pillow and his head slightly facing Zoey. Zoey lay on her back staring at the ceiling of the tent.
A slow ten minutes passed.
Nichole finally sat up.
"are we asleep?"
A groggy irritated chorus of no's responded.
Chase sat up.
"Would you rather, anyone?"
Zoey sat up.
"Im game"
"I'm asleep" Michael said as he readjusted in his bed, and closed his eyes.
Nichole pushed herself up.
"Alright Chase… would you rather… have a head the size of a tennis ball or the size of a watermelon?"
Chase gave her a confused look.
"Um well ive never had that one before… hmm lets see."
Zoey chimed in
"Well your heads pretty close to a watermelon with that bush of a head…"
"No one asked you Brooks" Chase playfully stated. He gave her a light shove, she laughed and pushed back.
"Well here i thought the question was going to be answered by me… but it appears someone has already done that for me. He smiled at Zoey.
"But out of spite i shall answer tennis ball."
Zoey rolled her eyes and smiled.
They continued to play for about two hours. laughing and joking it was turning into a great night. But Chase was hoping for more...
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A/N Let me know if you want me to continue, not planning to right now.